From the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs: A former CIA analyst was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully retaining and transmitting Top Secret National Defense Information to people who were not entitled to receive it, information which was publicly posted on social media platforms in October 2024. According to […]
The New York Post reports: Whole Foods reportedly directed workers to downplay increasingly empty aisles after a cyberattack on its main distributor crippled deliveries and sent ripple effects through the retail food supply chain. The Amazon-owned supermarket chain posted vague notices about “temporary supply challenges” as frustrated customers were greeted with bare shelves at several locations, according […]
Some timely advice for consumers seen on ZDNET: “In Windows 10 or 11, head to Settings, select Windows Update, and then download the latest updates. After rebooting, your PC will be protected.” Here’s why you want to do that promptly: Windows users who don’t always install the updates rolled out by Microsoft each month for […]
The Daily Record reports an appellate decision that is probably quite a relief to Marriott International: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has reversed a lower Maryland court’s recertification of plaintiff classes in a pair of consolidated lawsuits filed against Marriott and an information technology service provider for a 2018 data breach, handing down a major […]
The Times of India reports that the hacker responsible for leaking sensitive personal data of 31 million customers of Star Health last year claimed responsibility for sending death threats and bullet cartridges to the company’s chief executive and finance head. The hacker detailed these actions, described as reprisals against Star Health and Allied Insurance Company, […]
DataBreaches.net reports: He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool. As per the plea […]
Bleeping Computer reports: U.S. tax resolution firm Optima Tax Relief suffered a Chaos ransomware attack, with the threat actors now leaking data stolen from the company. Optima Tax Relief is a well-known U.S. tax resolution and settlement firm that helps individuals and businesses in addressing and fixing federal and state tax issues. The company claims […]
HIPAA Journal reports: Kettering Health is continuing to make progress in recovering from its May 20, 2025, ransomware attack. While its EHR has been restored, other IT systems remain offline, with disruption continuing at its Ohio medical centers and outpatient facilities. Earlier this week, Kettering Health issued an update confirming that a small subset of […]
BleepingComputer reports that there may be some cooperation or collaboration between the threat actor groups known as ShinyHunters and the loose collective known as “The Com:” Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against multi-national companies to steal data from organizations’ Salesforce platforms. According to Google’s Threat […]
It is not unusual for ransomware gangs to send threatening emails to the executives of their target. Some send emails that mention personal details about the executives or their families. Others threaten regulator punishment or other consequences of a highly publicized breach. But DragonForce reportedly included their travel itinerary to the target. As the BBC […]
